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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

— John Stuart Mill (view other epigraphs)

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READIN started out as a place for me to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly) how to design a web site.

There has been some mission drift here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of the main things I write about here are reading books, listening to (and playing) music, and watching the movies. Also I write about the work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.

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Saramago writes today about Paco IbÃ¡Ã±ez, and links to his web site --

Tomorrow, Saturday, Paco IbÃ¡Ã±ez will sing at ArgelÃ¨s-sur-mer, on the coast of Provence, in homage to the memory of the Spanish republicans, among others his father, who there suffered torments, humiliations, evil treatment of all kinds, in the concentration camp erected by the French authorities.

ArgelÃ¨s-sur-mer is a village very close to the Pyrenees (about 10 miles north of CerbÃ¨re); in the final years of the Spanish Civil War, tens of thousands of republicans were interned there.

posted evening of Thursday, February 19th, 2009
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